Chinatown and Shaw community members decry surging crime

[Sunrise]

Chief Contee doubles down on DEI while department continues to shrink, while celebrating the increase in female officers; reformists still pushing for fewer police; one sentence mentions Conservative viewpoint, followed with the "buts"; ACLU spokesperson "argued that expanding the number of police risks “destabilizing communities, doubling down on mass incarceration, and perpetuating systemic racism and trauma.”

Good effing luck, morons. Keep on killing each other, while going after the well-to-do. Let's opt for the South Africa Solution in DC.

District of Crime: What happened to Washington’s shrinking police force? - Washington Examiner

The Metropolitan Police Department is facing a critical shortage of officers. Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser announced earlier this month that the MPD had lost 300 to 400 officers over the past three to four years. She lamented the fact that there were few officers in training and blamed...

www.washingtonexaminer.com

I love it when someone says systemic racism, because what it means is that they can’t actually provide you any specific evidence of it.

It’s circular logic, protected by a Kafka trap: protestations of innocence are treated as proof of guilt. This means that systemic racism is subject to no falsification.

And that's the whole idea. It’s a fundamentalist religious belief. It espouses original sin, with its own saints and prophets. It gives us its own malevolent god for falling short. Really though, it persecutes the non-believers in the name of a “higher good”. One is redeemed and absolved by declaring fealty and loyalty to this scheme and grift. Damnation and exile comes from denial.

What’s old is new again.

One of my favorite clips about this:

Jordan Peterson Versus Michael Eric Dyson

Psychology Professor Jordan Peterson clashes with sociology professor Michael Eric Dyson on the merits of political correctness. In this portion, Dyson calls Peterson a "mean, mad white man." This event was hosted by the biannual Munk Debates.

www.c-span.org

Claiming systemic racism while engaging in overt racism.

 

[Sunrise]

Only place I still patronise in DC is the Calvert Woodley Deli.

Is it worth carrying there?

 

[Sunrise]

224 happened today.

Another extended magazine?

 

[Sunrise]

'A walk to nowhere' | Residents frustrated at safety walk in Anacostia that avoided crime hot spots

The safety walk began at an open-air drug market on 16th and Good Hope, SE

www.wusa9.com

The walk started at 16th and Good Hope Road, SE – a known open-air drug market. Missing from the block was the normal activity. Community members told WUSA9 that police cleared out the block the night before Wednesday’s walk.

Of course they did.

'I was shot in the leg' | Momma's Safe Haven aims to help community through gun violence trauma

Wednesday night several community members gathered to take a pledge not to use a gun.

www.wusa9.com

Helping kids and the community through traumas like that is what the organization is all about explained Smith. She says making sure that trauma doesn't lead them to pick up a gun is also a goal.

"We don't want them to feel like that's the answer," said Smith.

She told WUSA9 they plan to offer things like yoga, meditation, cooking and even barber classes at the facility.

Incredible word salad.

 

[Bob A]

Is it worth carrying there?

Maybe to and fro.

 

[Sunrise]

Maybe to and fro.

Something to consider during your next MD renewal?

 

[Bob A]

Something to consider during your next MD renewal?

Yeah, if I live so long.

Wait a year to take the 16 hour double course, wait six months for DC to do the paperwork, shell out several hundred dollars to exercise the "privilege" of an enumerated right. I can hardly wait.

 

[Sunrise]

How about another public safety walk?:

Northwest D.C. neighbors come together for public safety walk

It gives neighbors a chance to share concerns about crime.

www.wusa9.com

EDIT: Looks like the robbery video was deleted for some reason. Here it is for people who missed it:

Viral video shows 4 armed suspects robbing restaurant-goers at the Wharf

Viral video from a D.C. Wharf security camera shows the moment four suspects, appearing armed, rushed toward diners waiting outside a high-end restaurant.

www.fox5dc.com

But wait, there’s more:



You mean “illegal” gun violence right?

Nothing of value was learned here.

 

[Sunrise]

Congratulations.

 

[whistlersmother]

But wait, there’s more:



You mean “illegal” gun violence right?

Nothing of value was learned here.

Actually, criminal violence.

And no, nothing was learned by Rayshonna - its not her voting patterns, its those pesky (R) and their blasted clinging to guns. Only if...

 

[Sunrise]

Yeah, if I live so long.

Wait a year to take the 16 hour double course, wait six months for DC to do the paperwork, shell out several hundred dollars to exercise the "privilege" of an enumerated right. I can hardly wait.

I get it… but no time like the present!

 

[Sunrise]

Actually, criminal violence.

And no, nothing was learned by Rayshonna - it’s not her voting patterns, it’s those pesky (R) and their blasted clinging to guns. Only if...

It doesn’t matter how bad it gets. It doesn’t matter this happened to her. She just can’t make the logical connection that she voted for this.

 

[Sunrise]

Carjackings unlimited:







Getting carjacked with a gun probably still isn’t enough to change any of these votes.

 

[rascal]

Actually, criminal violence.

And no, nothing was learned by Rayshonna - its not her voting patterns, its those pesky (R) and their blasted clinging to guns. Only if...

exactly. Knife crime, both threat of force and violence, and actual stabbing is up too. Pretty much all violent crime has TRIPLED in last decade precisely as DC emptied its prisons and jails
That Rayshonna Hill uses this term gun violence, as if the implement is the issue, is just completely specious.
These "activists" can not get the fact that the DATA and SCIENCE is in, and conclusively shows that a tiny cohort of repeat criminals is responsible for the vast majority of DC violent crime.
The data also categorically show that as DC incarceration rates increased, violent crime rates in DC went on a sustained plunge. And as incarceration rates decreased violent crime trends reversed and started climbing.

Hillary Clinton had called this small cohort committing the vast majority of crime "super predators" She was forced to reverse herself after several studies claiming thre are no such thing as "super predator."
Now it is 2023 and if we plug in numbers of crimes and who is committing them, from last two decades the same studies that supposedly debunked "super predators" as a "myth" now show that "super predators" are in fact the problem.


https://twitter.com/RayshonnaHill

 

[Sunrise]

exactly. Knife crime, both threat of force and violence, and actual stabbing is up too. Pretty much all violent crime has TRIPLED in last decade precisely as DC emptied its prisons and jails
That Rayshonna Hill uses this term gun violence, as if the implement is the issue, is just completely specious.
These "activists" can not get the fact that the DATA and SCIENCE is in, and conclusively shows that a tiny cohort of repeat criminals is responsible for the vast majority of DC violent crime.
The data also categorically show that as DC incarceration rates increased, violent crime rates in DC went on a sustained plunge. And as incarceration rates decreased violent crime trends reversed and started climbing.

Hillary Clinton had called this small cohort committing the vast majority of crime "super predators" She was forced to reverse herself after several studies claiming thre are no such thing as "super predator."
Now it is 2023 and if we plug in numbers of crimes and who is committing them, from last two decades the same studies that supposedly debunked "super predators" as a "myth" now show that "super predators" are in fact the problem.


https://twitter.com/RayshonnaHill

Rayshonna exhibits the typical "sunk cost" behavior:

"It's hard to acknowledge that I am now a victim of gun violence in DC where I dedicated 14 years of my career supporting youth and families toward positive exposure and opportunities."

She was fully indoctrinated into programs which didn't prevent what happened to her. She won't betray her investment in the cause or her beliefs, so she has to double down.... which she did:

"While this is an awful experience for me, I will continue to work as a public servant for DC."

Yuri Bezmenov described this mentality:

“As I mentioned before, exposure to true information does not matter anymore. A person who was demoralized is unable to assess true information. The facts tell nothing to him. Even if I shower him with information, with authentic proof, with documents, with pictures; even if I take him by force to the Soviet Union and show him [a] concentration camp, he will refuse to believe it, until he [receives] a kick in his fan-bottom. When a military boot crashes his balls then he will understand. But not before that. That’s the [tragedy] of the situation of demoralization.”

It's not about data for her. It's about emotion and emotional investment. No amount of data will overcome that.

 

[Sunrise]

US Attorney for DC reports increase in prosecutions during 2023 - WTOP News

The U.S. Attorney’s Office for D.C. prosecuted more cases in fiscal 2023 than the year before, according to data shared during a briefing with reporters Thursday.

wtop.com

In fiscal year 2023, U.S. Attorney for D.C. Matthew Graves said the office prosecuted 44% of cases, a figure that reached 53% in the fourth quarter of the fiscal year that ended last month. That’s up from the 33% it prosecuted in fiscal year 2022.

More DC arrests prosecuted as US attorney pushes back on criticism

After months of criticism that a lack of criminal prosecutions hurt crime fighting in D.C. amid a crime wave, U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Matthew Graves announced an increase for the most recent 12 months Thursday afternoon. For years, the so-called “no paper rate” steadily...

www.nbcwashington.com

In a presentation for reporters, Graves explained the 42% of cases his office does not prosecute.

1. 18.2% are cases in which a victim does not want to assist in the prosecution. According to Graves many of those are low level cases. He offered that one such group of cases is minor domestic violence in which D.C.’s “mandatory arrest” policy mandates police arrest someone.
2. 13.9% are cases in which there is insufficient evidence.
3. 7.2% are not prosecuted due to prosecutorial discretion.
4. 2.9% are declined when prosecutors determine there is an affirmative defense such as self-defense.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/10/19/prosecutions-graves-usattorney-district-violent-crimes/

More police.

More arrests.

More charges.

More prison time.

That's the only way this gets fixed.

 

[Sunrise]

Congratulations.

 

[babalou]

Carjackings unlimited:







Getting carjacked with a gun probably still isn’t enough to change any of these votes.

damn had a side job IT client around the block..

 

[adit]

On Thursday, a staffer for Alabama Sen. Katie Britt (R) was robbed at gunpoint with the suspect making off with her car, bag, computer, and other items.

According to WUSA 9, the female staffer was walking down the sidewalk near the 1200 block of E Street NE around 8:20 pm when a person demanded she give them her purse and keys while pointing a gun in her face.

Britt thanked the DC police for acting quickly in a statement. "We thank God that she is safe and sound after this terrifying incident, and we're grateful to the Capitol Police Department and Metropolitan Police Department officers who quickly and professionally responded to the scene," she said.

"It is infuriating and completely unacceptable that an American who is on Capitol Hill to serve her country cannot safely walk the streets of Washington, D.C. at 8:30 at night because of the out-of-control crime in this city, "Britt added about the city's crime problem. Just look at the police department’s own numbers – this year, robberies are up 68% and motor vehicle thefts are up 102%."

"Local elected officials in the District of Columbia have the responsibility not just to their citizens, but to the country, to step up and get a hold of the crime crisis ravaging the streets of our nation’s capital," she concluded.

Republican Senate staffer robbed at gunpoint in Washington, DC

“We thank God that she is safe and sound after this terrifying incident.”

thepostmillennial.com

 

[Sunrise]

damn had a side job IT client around the block..

Yikes. Everything is a matter of timing.